i am a graduating senior. in about five days, i will graduate from college. i can not even begin to express how strange that feels. a few days ago, i finally took my final college final. in the final essay question on this final, i discussed how matter was created in the early universe through nearly complete annihilation due to quantum fluctuations and space-time inflation…and, yes, i’m still a drama major.

see i waited until my senior year to complete my science requirement for common cric. thank you liberal arts college. but actually i really enjoyed the science classes i took: Biological Impacts and Issues sometime during my sophomore year, and Astronomy and an astronomy lab this last semester.

those professors were amazing. that’s the trick to satisfying common curriculum requirements that you aren’t interested in: find a professor who is really passionate (lots of those here at trinity) about their field and you are bound to have an interesting class. thanks to Dr. MacAlpine, Dr. Boice, and Dr. Espey i had several really great classes in subjects that i honestly wasn’t excruciatingly interested in. i learned a lot and they changed my perspective on how i see and relate to the world. seriously, it’s good stuff.

i also think it depends on the person. i often refuse to be bored or uninterested. for example in my astronomy lab, i had to make a sundial. yes, i made a sundial in astronomy… it was like arts an crafts time. oh the good old days. my sundial could have been boring, but no. it had unicorns on it. pink and blue. and it had fish, a giraffe, a tiger, a fire hydrant, and some stars…all with googley eyes. most of it was my roommate’s left over art supplies. and then you will recognize the googley eyes from another project of mine…(see my last blog post)

to say the least my sundial was a beautiful work of craftsmanship blended with creativity, then tossed in a pre-teen girly dressing and garnished with a bit of pink glitter glue. and apparently, as i read on the sundial instruction manual, every sundial has some sort of pithy saying or quote. kind of like a theme. i am quite proud of mine. you will find it inscribed at the foot of the sundial panel. i hope you are inspired by its witty genius.

see for yourself:

so you agree, an astronomically brilliant sundial for my astronomy lab?

YOU: Out of this world brilliant.
ME: yes, I guess that’s another way to put it.
YOU: You’re my shooting star.
ME: uh huh, that’s good.
YOU: I’m over the moon for you.
ME: okay, you’re done now.
YOU: Yeah, sorry I spaced.
ME: stop.
(pause)
ME: thank you.
YOU: You’re universally welcome.
ME: okay that one didn’t even make sense…
YOU: Why not? Isn’t it universal?
ME: now that was just painful.

anywho, a quick update: i’m not writing a “good-bye blog” because i hope i get to keep sharing my cosmic wisdom with you. right after i graduate, i’m headed to H-town (for the old folk and out-of-towners out there that’s Houston, Texas) to shoot a movie. then, i’ll be in Austin, Texas, (or A-town…) building a resume and preparing to move out to Los Angeles. (La-town…no, not so much…)

that is all
madigrad